Beacon quenching beauty

There are seven city gates in Kaifeng. If they are surrounded by the Yuan army who came to attack, the seven gates must be guarded at the same time. The Yuan army has enough troops to attack the seven gates at the same time, making the defenders in the city exhausted.

Song Qingshu and the generals discussed several countermeasures to defend the city one after another to make sure.In the evening of the second day, the spies finally reported: Tuoyin's army had already arrived, and it was less than a hundred miles away from Fengfeng, and it would arrive the day after tomorrow at the latest.

The battle is imminent!

Song Qingshu sat in the Kaifeng government office, looking around at the generals under his command.

The two brothers Song Wuyi and Song Gaishi are at the front. Ever since he led the army to fight, these two have been following around and are the most trusted right-hand men.

Sitting below are Qi Tianbao, Yang Jing, Xue Xian, Zhao Guowang and others.Qi Tianbao is a general in the army second only to the Song brothers, he has always dared to fight and take the lead.Yang and Xue each led a 5000-strong cavalry team, the elite that Song Qingshu placed beside him, and Zhao Guowang was a ten thousand commander who was just promoted at the beginning of the year...he also had two powerful generals Wang Daquan and Yin Dezhu under his command At this time, the [-] troops in Xinyang and Zhang Dingbian were already fighting.

From Song Wuyi down, everyone's expressions were very solemn.

Song Qingshu looked around slowly, before saying in a deep voice, "The Yuan army is powerful, so I don't need to say more about the danger of this battle. In today's situation, Chen Youliang is in the south, Li Siqi is in the west, and Mingjiao territory is in the east. We are There is nowhere to retreat. Everyone, defeat the Yuan army and stick to Kaifeng, success or failure in this battle!"

All the generals stood up together and said in unison, "Don't worry, general, we swear to live and die with Kaifeng!" They shouted excitedly, and everyone's eyes were full of generosity.

Song Qingshu waved his hand, "Okay! Let's all go down and rest. If you have enough energy, you can go to war with the Yuan army tomorrow."

Get up first and take the soldiers back to the residence. The whole army is counting on him to command alone. He himself is the one who needs to rest the most. After the battle begins, he wonders if he will have time to sleep.

After walking for a while, he felt that someone was following him, stopped and turned around and said, "Gai Shi, you should also go to rest earlier, there must be a fierce battle to be fought tomorrow."

Song Gaish walked two steps quickly, came to him, and took out a wooden box from his arms, "Brother, this is for you. Every night, let them cut a piece and fry it into a thick soup, and put it in a small wine gourd. You take it with you during the day. By my side, drinking it will refresh me."

Song Qingshu took the wooden box, opened it, and saw an old ginseng that was as thick as a finger in the box, and scolded with a smile, "What refreshing, old ginseng soup is used by people to hang their lives, and when they can't breathe, fill the bowl with ginseng." Go down and hang Tang, am I so weak, I have to bring the old ginseng Tang to hang in the last battle!"

Song Gaish rubbed his head and laughed, "Brother, this is more expensive than others. They use it to hang their lives, but you use it to refresh yourself. What's the matter?"

Song Qingshu appreciated it very much. This battle must be exhausting and exhausting. His body is weak and he has not been able to take care of it. At this time, he needs to be more careful. He said with a smile, "Okay, you have the heart. You should go back and rest quickly." .”

Song Gaishi turned to leave, but suddenly turned around again, took a few steps, leaned up to Song Qingshu and said, "Brother, don't bother, that leader has always been unreliable, I think this person will not be able to do anything when it is critical , not only does not do good things, sometimes bad things happen, let’s fight on our own, we brothers are united, it may not be impossible to win the battle.”

Song Qingshu asked him, "Why do you think of Master Zhang?"

Song Gaish said confidently, "I think you have been in a bad mood for the past two days, and you have been feeling a little bored. You must be worrying about him again. Hmph, brother, you are so good with him, what happened last time? Chengxian, come here again this time! If I were him, he would have rushed over with his own troops to help, he is so kind, not only did he not come by himself, but he also wanted to take advantage of the fire!"

Song Qingshu said, "What are you guessing? I'm not worried because of him. A 20-yuan army is coming soon. How can I still be happy every day? Master Zhang also has his difficulties. Don't yell, hurry up Go back and rest."

Sending Song Gaish away, he took the wooden box and walked back quickly, handed the old ginseng to the girl who served him, and told her again Song Gaish's idea of ​​boiling thick soup for wine gourds, just as he was talking, he heard There were two light clicks on the buckle, and he got up in surprise, and shouted, "Who is it!"

As soon as Song Qingshu drank in the room, the guards guarding outside were immediately startled, they quickly surrounded him, and shouted loudly outside the room, "Assassin! Catch the assassin!"

Someone gave a long laugh, "It's not an assassin, it's here to deliver a letter. General Song, your guard outside your house is really tight!"

Song Qingshu hurriedly went to open the door himself, "Wei Bat King, long time no see, did Master Zhang have a letter for me, please come and drive me, I really don't dare to do it."

The black shadow flickered, and Wei Yixiao floated down from the room, "The leader knows that the situation on your side is a little urgent and he is afraid that others will not be able to deliver the letter, so he specially asked me to deliver it." He said and handed over a letter.

Wei Yixiao's lightness is unparalleled in the world, so it is most suitable for him to deliver the letter, but as the guardian of the Mingjiao, no one except the leader of the Mingjiao has the face to work him as a messenger.

Song Qingshu took it, dismissed the guards, invited Wei Yixiao to sit in the room, and asked someone to bring tea, then he opened Zhang Wuji's letter and read it carefully.

The content of Zhang Wuji's letter is very simple, only a few words, and only said two things: one is to tell Song Qingshu not to go to the envoy sent by Li Mingjiao; The tens of thousands of Ming teaching troops under them came starry night and could reach Kaifeng in a short time.

Song Qingshu was depressed by Song Gaishi's words about Zhang Wuji being unreliable just now, although he also defended Zhang Wuji, but he always felt bad in his heart, and the gloom in his heart was swept away at this moment.Looking at the letter in his hand, he couldn't help but smile.

After thinking about it, I was a little worried. Could it be that there was civil strife in his teaching because of the matter of helping him?

Looking up at Wei Yixiao, "Wei Bat King, I don't understand. You just sent an envoy the day before yesterday and said that it is okay to rescue us, but you have put forward a lot of conditions. I am thinking about it. Why did Master Zhang turn his eyes away?" Send another letter asking me to ignore the person in front of me?"

Wei Yixiao took a few sips of the fragrant tea brought in by the maid, and then leaned back in the chair, "Let me take a breath, my good fellow, I'm good at light work, but it's enough to travel like this, General Song, let me give it to you." Get something to eat, I'm starving."

Song Qingshu felt apologetic, and quickly ordered someone to make a midnight snack and bring it up.

Wei Yixiao then said, "General Song, the relationship between you and our leader...the relationship is very close, and you are not an outsider, so I will tell you directly. I am not afraid of your jokes, although our Mingjiao is the most powerful uprising today. However, these important figures in the religion are all from the Jianghu, and most of them don’t know anything about leading troops to fight. Those who can fight do not have a high status in the religion, and the more meritorious they are, the more they will act on their own. We can hardly control it Among them, the most difficult one is Yingtian's Marshal Zhu, who is used to doing superficial tricks..."

Song Qingshu looked at him suspiciously, and added with great reluctance, "It's true that I'm good at fighting, I'm very smart, and I have a solid foundation in the army. I was negligent the year before, and he saw the right moment and caught me." The trick was so good that he made a show, which greatly damaged the prestige of the leaders of the sect in the rebel army, and later the leader and Yang Zuo made great efforts to restrain him again, but it was only restraint."

Song Qingshu frowned, "Why did I hear Master Zhang say that he has resolved this matter?"

Wei Yixiao shook his head and said, "It's a solution if you say it's a solution, but the leader is kind-hearted and always unwilling to do anything cruel..." Speaking of this, Xiaoye brought in a big bowl of steaming wontons, Wei A smile probably means that I have been really hungry for a long time, and I am not polite, I ate it after holding the bowl, and said while eating, "This is a long story, let the leader explain it to you later, anyway, this time you In the eyes of Ben Dharma King, this is a very good thing. He finally urged the leader to make up his mind and took control of those disobedient and dissident guys. The messenger in front was sent by himself a few days ago. You Don't bother with him, just send him away tomorrow."

Song Qingshu had some ideas in his mind. Although he was still worried about how Zhang Wuji would deal with it, it was related to Mingjiao's internal affairs. Wei Yixiao would probably not go into details, so he could only wait for Zhang Wuji to come and ask.

After setting up Wei Yixiao, he went back to his room and slept peacefully. On the second day, he summoned all the generals to the Kaifeng government office to listen to the order, refreshed.

As usual, Song Gaishi first went to the Daluhua Chi Mansion behind the government office to look for Song Qingshu. He was surprised when they met, "Brother, you look really good today, and you slept well last night? You are amazing! You can still breathe when the army is overwhelmed immediately." Sleep soundly, I didn't fall asleep until late last night."

Song Qingshu glanced at him with a smile, and walked out directly, "Gai Shi, you are not sure about people. Let's go, go to the government office to discuss matters."

Song Gaishi trotted to follow, and said in a low voice, "What's wrong, what's wrong with this, do you dare to say that your complexion is not good today? It's obviously very good."

Song Qingshu didn't answer, and said in his heart: I mean you said last night that Zhang Jiaozhu is unreliable and you didn't see it right.

Sitting in the government office, he waited for all the generals to arrive and said, "I thought about it last night. It's unwise to wait for Tuo Yin to bring his army to attack us. By then, his 20 troops will attack us." Trapped in Kaifeng City, we will be passive."

The generals looked at each other, not knowing what he meant.

I only heard Song Qingshu continue, "So this general decided to take the initiative to send troops to meet Tuoyin's striker before he arrived in Kaifeng."